Charles Aznavour - Yesterday When I Was Young Lyrics
Yesterday when I was youngthe taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue,I teased at life as if it were a foolish gamethe way an evening breeze would tease a candle flame,The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I plannedI always built to last on weak and shifting sand,I lived by night and shunned the ***** light of dayand only now I see how the years have run awayYesterday when I was youngthere were so many songs that waited to be sung,So many wild pleasures that lay in store for meand so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see,I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out andI never stopped to think what life was all about,and every conversation that I can recallconcerned itself with me, and nothing else at all.Yesterday the moon was blueand every crazy day brought something new to do,and I used my magic age as if it were a wandand never saw the waste and emptiness beyond,The game of love I played with arrogance and prideand every flame I lit so quickly, quickly diedthe friends I made all seemed, somehow, to drift awayand only I am left on stage to end the play.Yesterday when I was youngthere were so many songs that waited to be sung,So many wild pleasures lay in store for meand so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see,There are so many songs in me that won't be sungcause I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongueAnd the time has come for me to pay for yesterdayWhen I was young.
